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Caste Travels Light: Why Migration Carries the Hierarchy It Was Meant to Escape

The Hindu published a Spotlight feature on Dalit students at Oxford, SOAS and Stanford reporting caste exclusion within the Indian diaspora abroad. It comes weeks after the death of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode on 18 September 2026, whose parents alleged caste harassment and while the UGC Equity Regulations 2026 remain stayed by the Supreme Court.